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I love the accessibility of presenting this very complex philosophical thought experiment in the form of fiction. He walks you through some of the analysis you need to be making in the beginning,
with the narrator-philosopher basically teaching you, but as the story goes on, you are increasingly left to your own devices to unpack the consequences of the increasingly bizarre scenario. By the end, it's completely stopped being a lecture and is just an entertaining story, but still no less instructive because of the way it captures your imagination and makes you want to work through the ideas.
There is in general a lack of understanding that bad cycling infrastructure can be significantly worse then no cycling infrastructure as it often create more dangers, here the better solution would be to design for lower speeds and shared road usage.
I love Caddy, I wish the docs were better on production deployments, too many unanswered questions about best practices especially RE: storage and config management. Like how local storage is supposed to be handled when you're using external storage? Allegedly it can be treated as stateless but maybe not?

You basically just have to pray the guy who made the module you need knows what he is doing, because there's no standards for documentation there either. Maintainers really need to put their foot down on random ass modules with 0 documentation providing critical functionality (i.e. S3 storage backend).
> Your example just demonstrates the usefulness of a time-based trial. You personally might not come back but the next customer might.

Yes, exactly.

The parent comment says they are not going to pay to use it for another 5 minutes. So if it were usage-based, would they pay to use it for the 21st times, after they run out the 20 free uses?

And they only use it once per three months. So the 21st use is 5 years later. Will the software still be maintined by the time? Will the dev still exist? Will the problem itself still exist?
I'm still undecided on whether XML is brilliant or a tarpit.

Xsltproc segfaults on large files which is a bit dubious, and webassembly is refusing to run parts of libxml2 on the grounds that memory accesses go out of bounds. Browsers seem to have abandoned it.

I do want an extensible tree notation though and it does have a lot of existing tooling. Some of it quite good. Am I stuck in the mires of sunk cost, or am I wisely not implementing a DIY tree transform? Hard to see from here.
Back in the day, you could (ab)use the accessibility api for screen reading. That’s still works, but now there is a proper “read screen contents” permission that the Google Lens app uses and any other app can request
It never occurred to me that you could refill spent pods, thats awesome I'll have to check that out. Any specific recommendations for scratching the OG mango itch? I've been wanting to switch to an even lower potency too, like 1%

I'm also grateful juul is still around at all, I haven't found any other device with such a nice small and flat form factor. Everything else bulges out of my pockets
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Well sure, then everyone's goose is cooked. Do you really think Apple is going to rise from the ashes in that scenario and finally use it as an opportunity to replace CUDA?

No, everyone will be in exactly the same doghouse. Nvidia has experience hedging their bets on multiple silicon suppliers, I suspect they are better-prepared for this situation than any other manufacturer.
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If someone is targeting you that precisely they are sorting through your trash for a coffee maker, then I would posit you are already in deep trouble and they'd likely do something easier like wait for you to leave and insert physical access into your network then...
Adding to the other reasons listed here:

Some people have solar installations, but do not have 1-to-1 net metering from their power company. For these people, having a connected hot water heater allows them to use their own solar power for heating water when they can, lowering their power bill.

Essentially any high-consumption electrical device can similarly benefit, especially ones that store energy such as hot water heaters and electric car chargers.
That’s for a million iterations, so really nanoseconds.
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1. I don't read Arabic.

2. I don't much care about what opinion pieces get published in Al Jazeera, or whether they meet your political demands. I care about the news reporting that Al Jazeera does from Gaza. On that score, Al Jazeera is the best source out there.
I think you are right about the closed system. When the compressed air spins the dynamo, it will cool, and then absorb heat from the environment. In an ideal, lossless scenario, that heat is equal to the heat given off when it cooled. So maybe you can view it as a battery that stores the energy in the environment?
On the flip side (for the company, not the consumer) if you've come back to the tool 3 months later you're already mentally invested in learning the tool, know it works, and remembered it. Either that'll be a paying customer or it won't, giving them 100 input files doesn't really guarantee a sale 7 years from now (or whenever it is they run out).

I.e. too short to actually be able to try it is a problem. How long "too short" is varies a lot based on what it is you're selling. Too short to be able to try multiple times may actually be a positive for total sales though, particularly in the consumer software space. As always the answer is "test and see what changes your sales" but that not much does it this way is more likely a hint it doesn't execute well with most models rather than nobody is trying it.
Intelligent toaster and a 'nappy fullness sensor' among UK inventions in 2021
"Most patents across the country related to highly esoteric, technical or scientific devices and methods. However, many of the applications were for tools that could be used by everyday consumers.

These included an application for an AI-controlled toaster invented by Philip Davies of Southsea, Portsmouth."
> Arturo’s bombshell finding was that 13% of teen users of Instagram between the ages of 13-15 said that they themselves had received unwanted sexual advances…. In the past week!

Yikes! What the fuck are we doing?
That’s my point. A nicotine addiction does not satisfy the “despite substantial harm and other negative consequences” corollary. Using a high quality vape pen and unflavored vegetable glycerine as the base, the delivery issue is somewhat resolved.
Just as I said, Galaxy Zack series (he must have been 7 at the time though), Time Jumpers (fairly recently, there's only 4 of them and I don't know if the author will write more), Desmond Cole (about ghosts). But that's pretty much all for the last 1+ years... I'm trying some of the "Scooby-Doo" books, not comics but regular chapter books, and he seems to read them at least. I'm going to try more "grown up" books (just picked up Class Dismissed, it's a winner of some prize or whatever), we'll see how it goes.

But it's honestly really frustrating. I'm older (grew up in the 80s) and we read MUCH more, and I think it's important.

Do you know of any resources/discussions I can look up/participate in?
That's very definitely not true. Perhaps they're defaulting to Snap for convenience, but Certbot is a cross-platform Python program, and can just be installed via pip: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip

Non-Ubuntu distros also often have standard packages in their repos with no reference to Snap, and EFF also distributes a Docker container with Certbot pre-configured, if Docker is your thing.
> I'm blaming marijuana legalization for young people smoking marijuana, when they wouldn't smoke cigarettes.

Young people who would never smoke cigarettes smoking marijuana was already happening the 2000s, long before any state approached legalization.
But it replaced cigarettes, which are much worse by every metric.
Complexity is like a Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi Schemes are effective with sales. Midwits love Complexity & love Ponzi Schemes. Midwits drive the markets due to their population being large.
I did not hear that Nim made ORC the default, thanks for that!

I still think that my overall point stands: sure, you can treat this as an optimization pass, but that kind of overhead isn't acceptable in the C++/Rust world. And syntax is how you communicate programmer intent, to resolve the sorts of ambiguous cases described in some other comments here.

I am again reminded of escape analysis https://steveklabnik.com/writing/borrow-checking-escape-anal...
In this context, dollar value is the only one that matters, because it's common comparison base of everything. The only way to compare apples to apples is in dollars.

I'm not arguing that you're running this calculation in your head, nor that any of us makes rational risk assessments. My point is that every such assessment implied by doing anything implicitly establishes a dollar value for life, that this value is always finite and must be so, and that you can learn something from looking at them in aggregate.
> Ok, so how did all this unchecked exposure to propaganda workout for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Palestine etc? Did it lead to some kind of "free thinking" utopia?

You did not think this argument through. None of the aforementioned countries have free press. They censor heavily.

In all of the above countries the government dictates what is "correct" and "accurate" information. News outlets saying anything else are shut down, banned, and journalists are sometimes jailed.

All of these non-democracies are afraid of free press. Is that the company Israel wants to keep in this matter?

> Access to information hasn't been banned [in Israel].

Al Jazeera is literally banned and blocked.

> We can't just have autocrats from foreign countries broadcasting nonsense, unabated to whoever wants to listen, else our society will look no different to those dystopias.

This defeatist argument leads to the conclusion that democracy cannot work. Democracy cannot work without free press, and according to you it cannot work if press is free from government interference.

Is that what we want to do? Give up?
I don't know in detail, but they could do something like this: compress the air, making it hot, then run the hot air through a packed bed of small objects (pebbles, bits of iron). As the air goes through the bed the heat is transferred to the material. This ends with a temperature gradient across the bed (hot at one end, cooler at the other). To discharge, the flow of air is reversed: in at the cool end, out at the hot end.

This sort of design (a counterflow heat exchanger, basically) keeps the delta-T at each point low, so the system has low entropy production.

A similar heat exchanger could be designed with a liquid thermal storage medium, where the air and the liquid are flowed past each other in opposite directions (separated by solid walls, most likely). The hot storage tank would be insulated. An advantage of this design is the pressure of the liquid storage tanks needn't be high, unlike the vessel containing the pebbles in the earlier described system.

All these may need to dump some waste heat to the environment as a consequence of inefficiencies in the system.
It seems like once you favor one choice ("Star Wars" in movies, for example) a couple of times, it only lets you compare other movies to Star Wars.

I agree with latexr that for almost every use-case you want this to behave like a bracket that presents a rank of your choices at the end.

Before my boys were born I wrote something similar to help us decide baby names. I put all of my wife's and my choices in a head-to-head arena in a bunch of rounds. They all started out with a base 50 out of 100 score and the winner of each round got bumped up to the loser's cumulative score (if higher) plus some. The loser got bumped down to the winner's score (if lower) minus some.

The game would stop when all names had competed at least 3 times and scores stopped changing much.

I then took my wife's top 10 and my top 10 ran the game again on the smaller combined list. It worked really well, especially helping to resolve the "My favorite is X but yours is Y. You suck" logjam. We could see our favorites overlapped a lot which made it easier to agree on a mutually acceptable choice.
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I liked this article a lot - information-dense but approachable. It feels like you can understand the entire app using only the code snippets in the article, which speaks to the quality of the design. The only part that made me roll my eyes was the AI piece - I don't think there's any actual AI involved in the app, it seems like the author just used it to figure out what metrics to use, and then hardcoded them into the app? (That's probably how I'd do it, tbh - I just think the AI part distracts from the overall point and doesn't need to be in the post.)
I'm really excited for MotherDuck, which is basically going to be a BigQuery style serverless data warehouse, but DuckDB flavored, so you can do the local development and then just move it to the cloud without having to translate.
Apple drove genuine security improvements in mobile hardware well before Android, including dedicated security chips and encrypted storage. The gap has been closed for a few years now, though, so the reputation is not so much "unfounded" as "out of date".
Absolutely, positively, unequivocally, yes.
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Personal anecdote (about blood pressure):

I have smoked less than one cigarette in my entire life, but for two decades was a daily cannaburner. In the past two months, I have almost entirely stopped combusting to consume (i.e. no flame/burning), and instead used a Volcano.

My blood pressure has dropped -20/-15 in those two months of not burning.

YMMV, n=1, "not a controlled study."
What matters is that these statements were both echoed and followed by actions. When random infantry soldiers recite genocidal rhetoric, and don’t get punished for that, at best you are complicit in genocide (which is also a crime according to Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention). When genocidal rhetoric is echoed on the international stage by random journalists, or football players representing your nation, you need to disavow those words (and in case of the football player, dismiss the player from the sport).

Genocide is serious crime, and when it is plausible that a genocide is being committed, any incitements to further it are criminal, and need to be punished, if these acts are not punished, or worse, dismissed as not relevant, you are at best complicit. But the fact that genocidal conduct continues on the ground, and officials are not backing down their rhetoric, and are not punishing genocidal actions, it is reasonable to assume that genocide is also the intent of the people in charge.
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Those greatly reduce bad parking, but they also do provide some security from lower-speed collisions; yes it's possible for a truck to hit it fast enough to go through it, but it'll do quite a number to a low speed vehicle, and even if it doesn't completely stop it, greatly reduce the velocity if it does hit someone.
Minors simply shouldn't be on social media. Like casinos, bars, and nightclubs it's a social space that needs a lot of self-control and executive function to engage with safely. Most kids won't have that.
I'll have to read it again but I didn't notice where they ruled out environmental factors (read: epigenetics). The thing about families is they share environments, diet, habits, other norms, etc.
Far-right conservatives in Germany claim to be "not antisemtic" by using dogwhistles (similar to the US, e.g. "elites" - the Nazis literally used "international bankers"). However they generally don't oppose Israel's right to self-defense and they are anti-Palestine because they don't like Muslims. In fact "actually the rise of antisemitism is caused by all the Muslims in our country" has been a major right-wing conservative talking point in Germany (and other parts of Europe) because it serves as a distraction. As there's no "risk" of increased Jewish immigration to Germany and Israel actually literally wants the opposite (i.e. for Jews to leave their home countries for Israel to increase the Jewish population in the Middle East, especially if they're the "right" kind of Jew), being pro-Israel is actually an effective strategy even if you turn around to blame all ills on a nebulous group of Jewish "elites" (and in Germany this is usually very nebulous as even far-right conservatives aren't dumb enough to be openly antisemetic).

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitic and antisemitism is not anti-Zionist. Historically the German far-right was actually indifferent to Zionism because it provided a way to get rid of Jewish people domestically. They placed restrictions on emigration to prevent wealth drain (i.e. rich Jewish people taking their money/property with them when leaving Germany) but the only reason they shut down the Zionist emigration project was that they invaded Poland and suspended all legal migration because of the war.

There is a line between being pro-Palestine/anti-Israel and being antisemitic. That line is when you insist on people being evicted from Palestine/Israel simply for being Jewish. Yes, some protests have seen people cross that line and some groups who have organized protests were firmly on the wrong end of that line. But the narrative that you can't be anti-Zionist without being antisemtic or that you can't be opposed to Israel's government's action without being opposed to the existence of Jewish people in Palestine/Israel is in itself antisemitic by deliberately conflating a state with individuals, many of whom don't even live in that state nor agree with it.

There have been many Jewish opponents to Zionism and Zionism in Palestine especially since the inception of the modern Zionist movements. Until the state of Israel was created there was a strong divide between Jewish Zionists and Bundists, the latter arguing for a stateless nationhood. Bundists and other Jewish anti-Zionists still exist, they're just relegated to obscurity because Israel dominates the international conversation and most Jewish interest groups have aligned themselves with Israel for pragmatic reasons.

Also, finally, Israel's current government as well as the illegal settlers in the West Bank (and prominent figures who fantasize about a "Greater Israel" including at least all of Palestine but potentially also parts of the surrounding countries) are in fact most accurately described as "far-right conservatives" as well.
Huh, interesting. I made that conclusion based on how I see objects loading, with sharp outlines appearing before other elements. Also, some programs which draw their UI in a specific way become very slow, presumably due to some kind of graphics sync, something that I wouldn't expect from a video based protocol.
> ... whose collaborative and open approach to information sharing was ultimately used to render their own profession defunct.

Before that happens, so many other professions shall then have been rendered totally obsolete. So many it'd have profound societal consequences. I understand the "me, myself and I" and the fear but programmers coding themselves into irrelevance is really the least of our concerns.
Filtering is still useful even in that system for sorting mail according to its context, so that one can entirely ignore everything from the context until you're ready to work on it.

E.g. if I run a book club or something via email, and all book club mail goes to a label or folder instead of the inbox, I can wait to look at it for when I'm doing book club work, instead of seeing it all the time.
I should add that there's also some energy stored lifting water. So this is not entirely a thermal store. I didn't run the numbers, but I guess the thermal store stores > energy than is stored lifting water.
Would it make sense to compress air, discard the heat generated, and then use the compressed air later to increase the efficiency of a turbine on a combined cycle plant?
Only 23 states in USA allow referendum to take place. Being allowed to vote is a requisite for democracy.
I love this article. Very well laid out and simply explained. This article is explaining the set in stone mental health association with debt servicing.

>I’m not an anti-debt zealot. There’s a time and place, and used responsibly it’s a wonderful tool.

I am, here's how I would add to this article.

How do you tell how in debt you are. How tight is the graph? Its not just your debt.

Your paycheque comes from your neighbour's spending. If they are in debt, then you too will feel their collective debt. Generally speaking debt is mortgages> cars> tuition. Not a great deal else.

So you can actually look at the public data.

Norway is 210% debt to income.

Canada is 178% debt to income.

The threshold of 100% is a big deal. It's when discretionary spending stops. At 100%, your income goes 100% toward servicing debt. It's generally regarded that you keep this in the 30-40% range.

When these thresholds hit ~130% that's typical of a financial crisis. To reach 178% or above 200%... that's only possible if actions are being taken by the central banks to prevent a crash temporarily.

Checking Norway, because I don't know the state of their central bank. It seems Norway went bankrupt in the early 2000s? It has been a steady crash since being prevented by their central bank?

Private Debt to GDP in Norway increased to 277.90 percent in 2023

So here's the thing about central banks working to prevent crashes. You can do so of course, but you also need to deflate the risk. But all they are doing is inflating the inevitable pop. You're just making the crash worse over time.
I said "wouldn't be _THAT MUCH_ need for bollards". But I tend to lean towards less hostile spaces if possible.

Yes, colission with Smart would still be probably quite nasty but probably way less than with F-150.

Just for the kicks of it: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/smart-fortwo-2014-3...

In case of Ford it is like hitting vertical wall while in Smart case you have angle which limits impact surface.

(and last but not least: with city-cars (and not oversized bulky pseudo-suvs) you can actually see over the car, as they tend to be lower, to orient yourself better on the situation on the street)
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I grew up in and around a family of smokers, always in the smoking section of a bar, etc. I don't smoke myself and have been away from it for decades.

I recently attended an event hosted at an American Legion Post and went to the bar there where smoking was allowed (and done, frequently). The scent first hit me quite negatively, but something triggered in my mind and honestly made it feel more like home. It was an odd feeling of both not really enjoying the immediate sensation while also triggering positive nostalgia memories.
It is not, selling a car requires title transfer, buying a shotgun in most (i'm hedging a little here, it might be all) states requires passing an age gate (again 18 where i live which is the federal minimum (21 for semi auto)), maybe higher in other states).

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